Re: language support?

From: William Winkler (ouiNOouiliSPAMouinqui_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/28/04

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    I have a dual-boot system, XP and Linux, so I simply copied TrueType fonts
    like SimSun and MS Gothic over to the Linux partition. If good fonts for
    printing are the main problem, but you're not going to be dual-booting,
    perhaps you should simply look around for fonts. Seems like there are lots
    of low-cost (if not free) TrueType fonts available.

    Red Hat definitely supplies an avalanche of desktop stuff: it's more a
    question of pruning some of it out.

    "Mujin" <baka@hornedking.com> wrote in message
    news:univ80ht9otbas6pismlf6sjjghrelga4m@4ax.com...
    > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:51:43 -0500, "William Winkler"
    > <ouiNOouiliSPAMouinqui@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    > >Yes, Red Hat includes Japanese support, e.g. fonts and locale settings
    that
    > >affect the keyboard etc. But I haven't tried out their Japanese input
    > >method. Different people use things in different ways, so the only way
    > >you'll find out if it covers the things you need is to try it.
    Fortunately
    > >Red Hat is easy to install and the price is right, e.g.
    >
    > Assuming the support is derived from the Japanese extension project, I
    > would imagine the input method is Canna/Wnn, which emulate the
    > Japanese keyboard standard. I plan on trying to get a commercial
    > distribution, since I hear the non-commercial Japanese fonts available
    > don't print well. I've tried several versions of Linux on this
    > computer so far, and have been happy with what I got - but among other
    > things the non-commercial distribution of Vine2.6 I installed doesn't
    > actually include much desktop software.
    >
    > The principle problem so far has revolved around this lack; as I'm new
    > to linux and have only vague memories of what little Unix I used waaay
    > back when, I'm a little overwhelmed by things like lists of missing
    > dependencies etc. I'd like to get a linux machine up and running in a
    > way I can actually use in my day-to-day work so that I can start out
    > learning the basics before plunging headlong into dealing with such
    > things...
    > --
    > K
    >
    > "Larger Kangaroos Leap Farther, Researchers Find"
    > -The Los Angeles Times, November 2

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